Britain's Jazz Carlin, heading back to the village after a workout, told Reuters she had not even noticed the lifeguards but was quite used to them in England. "It is a Brazilian law that any public pool over a certain size has to have lifeguards," Ricardo Prado, the sport manager for aquatics, told Reuters. And so will the rest of the world's greatest swimmers in a situation that has caused some mirth in the run-up to the competition. You see the lifeguards and they sit up on the tower drinking Bintangs (beer) all day. "We train at the university pool (in Bath) and the public can come in as well so they make sure they have got lifeguards there."

Source: Otago Daily Times August 06, 2016 00:22 UTC